IP SLA with Object Tracking and Automatic Preempting in MPLS TE

Original post # https://rekrowten.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/ip-sla-with-object-tracking-and-automatic-preempting-in-mpls-te-part-5/ IP SLA was described in this post. Some of the examples were provided here. This post showed an option, where IP SLA was used to monitor static routes and preempting them. Today’s post will be similar to that one. Today I am monitoring MPLS TE tunnels and dynamically preempting to backup path, when certain threshold in IP SLA probe is met. Good example on how to monitor network and dynamically and…

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IP-SLA DNS Tracking

Original Post # http://jcape.name/2011/04/23/anycast-ip-sla-howto/  Configuration to be performed on a server Configuration to be performed on the router in site A Configuration to be performed on the router in site B   The next step is to configure the routers to route packets destined for the anycast address via the primary network interface on the servers, run test queries against named on the primary network interface of that server, and remove the route to the anycast…

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CUIC Templates Giving Blank Results

URL # CUIC Cisco Reference User Guide for the Cisco Unified Intelligence Center Reporting Application, Release 9.1(1) Data Sources Page This page opens when you click the Data Sources drawer. After a new installation, this page shows the following Data Sources:  Unified Intelligence Center data source  A Data Source for the Unified Intelligence Center database is added by the installer. This database holds tables for objects such as reports, dashboards, value lists, and users that…

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Getting your router to Tweet

Getting your router to Tweet Original post-link # http://routing-bits.com/2010/01/20/tweeting-router/#more-1697 so an earlier post sharing a really neat geek trick is awesome, but how the hell does one go about configuring a router to tweet something? (if you not a programmer) To do it, you would need the following: IOS image that supports EEM. A twitter account. A base64 encoded representation of you twitter account’s Bruno’s twitter script. Download tweet-policy.tcl here. The IP address of your nearest twitter…

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Excel Tip : How to Make an Excel Cell secured for Password

Original Post # http://www.learnexcelmacro.com/wp/2014/06/excel-cell-masking-for-password/ Step 1: Set your Cell or Cell Range as Hidden but NOT Locked First of all you need to decide which range or cells you want to allow users to edit. Why is this required here at first step?? — because this masking is going to be achieved by Protecting the sheet hence you should know those cells which are needs to be made a editable even after protecting the sheet. Refer…

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Cisco UCS and Vmware Interfaces (Vnics) HA Design Considerations

Hi Guys , I was going through the Cisco UCS B-Series and  Vmware Designing ,Here are the few points which need to be considered when Building Cisco UCS and Vmware HA. As the UCS is supporting HA/Failover  in Vnics with Fail-over feature in Vnic or Vnic tempalte which enables fail-over between FI-A and FI-B via IOMs. In this case the fail-over will be managed by the UCS Vnics. Form the Vmware Keep it simple NO…

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Troubleshooting network and TCP/UDP port connectivity issues on ESX/ESXi(2020669)

Troubleshooting network and TCP/UDP port connectivity issues on ESX/ESXi(2020669) Purpose This article provides information on troubleshooting network and TCP/UDP port connectivity issues using these troubleshooting tools: ping/vmkping to troubleshoot network connectivity between two servers. telnet to troubleshoot TCP port connectivity. netcat (nc) to troubleshoot TCP port connectivity. openssl to troubleshoot SSL port connectivity and verify SSL certificate information. tcpdump and tcpdump-uw to collect packet traces to troubleshoot network issues. netstat and esxcli network to view active TCP/UDP connections to the host. Note: The telnet and nc tools help you to…

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Check Device Coverage

About the Cisco Device Coverage Checker The Cisco Device Coverage Checker tool allows you to determine the current contract status of your Cisco devices. After entering valid serial numbers, the coverage status of each item is checked. Devices found to be covered by an active service contract are indicated by a checkmark icon () in the Covered column. You must have a valid Cisco.com account to use Cisco Device Coverage Checker. If you do not have…

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UCSS and ESW and SMARTnet Services Contracts

UCSS and ESW and SMARTnet Services Contracts SMARTnet – purchased on hardware e.g. MCS servers or IOS gateways   Essential Software support  (ESW) – is SMARTnet equivalent for software.  It gets you TAC support, minor bug updates, collateral and software advisor and case collection. ESW does not provide major upgrades. Available in 1yr, 3yr and 5yr.  In the old days this was the “SAS” part of “SASU”. It is strongly recommended that ESW contract term…

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Group File, Directory and Device permissions: chmod

Group File, Directory and Device permissions: chmod Set file, directory and device permissions: File, directory and device permissions can be set to allow or deny access to members of their own group or all others. Modification of file, directory and device access is achieved with the chmod command. The permissions can be assigned in octal notation or in the more easily recognized character format where the command form is: chmod [ugoa][+-=][rwxXst] fileORdirectoryName u User access g Group access o Other…

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